$15 for four maps and a zombie map is a steal?

I got minecraft for that amount. Heck, I got Age of Mythology Titans expansion for $20, and it added a lot more than just five maps. I can buy Company of heroes at my local gamestop for around $15, I can buy Battlefield2 along with every single expansion for it for around $25.

$15 for five maps sounds overpriced to me.

Maybe to you but to someone who played it for hundreds of hours its a steal. I mean i agree its not the best dlc i have seem, but its ALOT better than the normal 3 maps for 15$ that they do lol. Either way it can be 100$ it still is not neccassary. you get your 60$ worth with the game anything extra is just extra. 

I hate DLC. It was a good idea, and on rare occassion it still can be good but the reality is nowadays 99% of DLC is just stuff that should have been included in the game from the start. The industry has corrupted DLC. It's now just a way to nickel and dime consumers. Nintendo has been like an ancient bastion by forgoing this trend in thier own first party games. It will be a sad day indeed when even Nintendo succumbs to the DLC craze.

Yes, but they never had DLC that improved the very basic level editor or patches to fix the characters (aka MetaKnight and Snake).  Also they only released one level at a time.  Thousands of people could never share their levels.

They could have done a lot better basically.  And no Wii game as far as I know has DLC that modified the base game.

Unfortunately I have to agree. The idea was good, add content that due to time or other factors could not be included on the game at launch without the need for expansions or sequels, but the change of getting easy money corrupted them.

Although there are exceptions, like Burnout Paradise or GTA IV.

DLC is good but sadly is abused, a few games like mentioned above LBP does it right then we have the other 90% which have the DLC coming out the day of the game. By far the worst offenders of DLC are fighters who just start pumping out coustumes the first day that could be easily put into the games disc. I like the idea of DLC but it doesn't seem like the abuse of it will stop anytime soon..

DLC is the cancer of gaming nowadays. It's the worm in the fruit for us, and a guarantee of unplayability in the future. Also, when I pay for a game, I don't want to pay knowing it will be invested in DLC I'll never buy instead than a second opus.

What is the next step if the gaming community continue to support it ? Built-in credit card slot in the controllers ? Micro-economy based paying games ? Will we have to pay maps one by one ? Weapons ? Multiplayer, missions in Single Player on demand ? Will games will be sold like bacon slices ? We already have online passes, and we're about to get FPS with monthly subscriptions. Thank you.

Free DLC should be only used for language packs in game, in order to simplify localization for the editors. Period

I don't mind if DLC is included, it can be a good thing sometimes...

I just don't want a company shipping an incomplete game then selling the things that should have been in a game in the first place as DLC

DLC is not bad per se, the problem is people supporting bad DLC. And I'm not talking about costumes or hats, thats not relevant, the problem is when important part of the gameplay like characters or maps are left out from the original game from day one. I get the OP, Civ 5 was just wrong.

the problem here appears to be that the OP himself has not played many games which have DLC, the point of DLC is, that is adds extra value to a product, a few months after the game release, to add a bit of freshness to the game, games like Halo 3, Burnout Paradise and The Force Unleashed have great DLC 

Halo 3 had amazing map packs released and developer support long after the title was released

Burnout Paradise is a different game now to when it was originally released

The Force Unleashed, they literally made another small campaign out of DLC which could never be built into the main game unless it got delayed at least 6 months

if your complaining about CAPCOM with its figters and DLC codes to unlock content on the disk, that ISN'T good, but that didn't affect the main story of RE5 did it? which is surely what a significant amount of the people who bought the game got it for

take Mario Kart DS for example, the game released a year after the DS did in America, if Nintendo decided to release a map pack with racing circuits in 2007, two years after the game came out, would you complain that Nintendo didn't hold the release back to add in the DLC?

other games which had great DLC, LBP, Red Dead Redemption, Fallout 3, Oblivion